Harris v. Rees’s Empirical Analysis
794 F.2d 1168 · 1986
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2008
15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Picard v. Connor · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Sumner v. Mata · Cannon v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“equality before the bar of justice in every American court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gonzalez
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.